The United States of America has imported over two million barrels of jet fuel from the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals.
The imports confirm the dominance of the refinery which is extending far beyond Africa and the Middle East. According to data from ship-tracking service Kpler, six vessels carrying about 1.7 million barrels of jet fuel from Dangote Refinery arrived at US ports this month.
Another vessel, the Hafnia Andromeda, is set to arrive at the Everglades terminal on 29th March with approximately 348,000 barrels of jet fuel.
The shipments from the Dangote Refinery, with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day (bpd), Africa’s largest, highlights its potential to reshape global fuel trading dynamics, establishing a new swing supplier in the Atlantic Basin.
This shipment to the United States follows three cargoes of jet fuel, totalling around 130 million litres, exported from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia by the Dangote Refinery.
The refinery has already demonstrated its ability to compete with European refiners on gasoline (PMS) exports, and these jet fuel shipments to the United States could challenge the economics of domestic producers in the world’s largest fuel-consuming nation.
